FBR80NAti AND POLITICAL. Mr. Thoh a"Val8h, architect of the 8U Louis Custom-home, bw been tempo rarily suspended from hli duties by the President, pending Investigation of charges, against him of derellotion of duty. Mr. Foster, American Minister to Mexico, bus been summoned home to testify beforo the Congressional Investigating Com mittee in regard to our difficulties with that nation. G. W. Gustin and W. II. Dessin, two young lawyers of Maoon, Oa., fought a duel with pistols on the 27th. Both missed. GkoroeB. Bigelow, a prominent Boston lawyer, Is charged with embezzling' $40,000 belonging to trust estate. Ue has given bull for $00,000. . Hon. Simon Cameron has settled the Widow Oliver's breach-of -promise suit by paying her $1,000. . GovEUiion-ELECT IIOLLIDAT of Vir ginia was inaugurated with public oere monies on the 1st. The silver wedding of the President and Mrs. Ilayes was celebrated at the White Bouse on the evening of the 31st ult. It was a quiet and sociable affair, those...

fflt; JBttAS.-Editor:.' j 1 u i 1. . TUBLIS Jr fiVJiRY SATUItDAT. cmuyy. topics. Tub report to the Secretary of tho In terior of tho Hoard of Inquiry appoint ed to InvoHtiirato the Indian sorvioo shows a very lax stute of official morals and discipline prevailing iu that bureau, the responsibility for which seems to bo divided betweon tho late Commissioner of Indian Affairs,' the Chief Clerk, Cor respondence Clerk', Annuity Clerk, and Stenographer. ' The present Superln-1 tendent is:' also found to be an incon Detent and inefficient officer.' ' The committee ' sevorely ' denounce the existing ' ' system :of ,i Indian. Agen cies' and post-traderships, and say i. " The business, as at present instituted, conducted and .continued, ; is simply a license to ; an agent jand his proxy to nlioat and swlndlo the Indians . in the namo of tho United States of America. Evidences have- been numerous or tno accumulation, of ( fortunes by persons in tha service upon salaries that would barely prov...

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AN ORDINANCE T BcalnM the ImprTMBt or ID Bireein. Be it ordained, By the Mayor tod Board of Aldermen ot ino wwn o San Mircos : inn 1P.1 That tha Board of Al denser! shall lay off the town into street preoiooto, and shall, at their first regular meeting in eaoh and every year, appoint a Street Commissioner (in the manner prescribed for the appointment of other town officers) for eaoh street preoinot, and shall, at the same time, designate all the hands liable to work on publio streets unaer me aiuureu I'Anml.ilnnAH in tha rnwn: and in ease any hand or hands liable to work on streets shall not have been designa ted by said Board, the Commissioners shall have power to summons them to work on any street or alley within the preoinot in whioh they may live, as if they bad been designated by the Board; provided, fifteen days residence in the . ha nalMM1'V til Ten 11 ITS tl6 Der formance of work on the streets ; but if, from any causa, toe isoara snail iau omegleot to perform the duties req...

ii .ill a ! i 1 1 I'! J H jyatt 2llirC05 1" JUW. I. H. JULIAN, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, 'M TOPICS. CURRENT Coint Ziciiv, Austrian Ambassador at Constantinople, informed tho Turk- ish Foreign Minister, Server lMha, previous to tho departure of tko latter charges of corruption anu irauu in P t K'nnlik- to negotiate for nn' armis- curing the electoral voto of this State. to Kasanlik to negotiate for nn armis tico, that he had received instructions from Vienna that Austria could not pre vent tho conclusion of an armistice on a basis of peaco prelimi naries, but that, as a signatory of tho Treaty of Paris, Austiia would not rccognizo a poaeo concluded with out her assent to its difl'erent points. This communication, says a correspond ent at Constantinople, is regarded as a sign that there is an understanding be tween England and Austria. Tub funeral of the late King Victor Emanuel took placo at Itomo on tho 17th. Tho funeral cortege, composed principally of military, was an hour...

I. H. JULIAN, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. COOPEU TIM. IIY AUGUST LARNE1). Cooper Tim was a large-headed little man, with a certain pleasantness of face that can hardly bo analyzed. For Tim had none of tho fatal gift of beauty; and yet a certain genial goodness did ray out of his homely features, although he was the most taciturn of human beings. There was an ingenious theory cur rent among the neighbors that Tim had been stunted, when a boy, by the too vigorous arm of his mother, who was unaccustomed to spare the rod. Thore was another theory, precisely contrary, to the effect that his mother had beaten him in order to bring out the bright ness which must somewhere be latent in Tim's constitution 5 but, instead of producing the desired result, the boy had sunk into unfathomable deeps of silence. His mother in time went the way of all flesh, and Tim came into possession of a shop, and a little dwelling-house hard by, which ho rented to a quiet family, taking his meals with the ...

SEVENTH KEaIL 1S7S. or tin SAN MARCOS FREE PRESS! Vr now "CT . TWICE AS LAFtGE ind conUliii FOUR TIMKJ much Reading Mil tar u heretofore. Br eomparlaon, It will be found nearly Uw the tfuftWon itf '. 4 contain about aa much raiding miliar. it'kow oivm FULL GENERAL NEWS) (t well at LOCAL, v III petrone will need to take no other newa paper. Trie tbo eanie only TWO DOLLARS jeer, poatage 1 DON'T BOaaoW, BUT re-MuuNCHi-uE roic irt-v Free Press. ISAAfc it JULIAN, Editor. . SAN MARCOS, TE3CAS. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2 Official Paper of llmji and Blanco toUlltlt'S. The k'lrtaucial Miluatlon. Tn CbicuB Tribune says the whole country its confronted with the ucees eity of paying debts in a curreuify worth from 25 to 30 per cent, more thun the value received, nod of rating und selling property at a valuo reduced 50 per cent, by reason of the abnor mally contracted money resources ot tho time. The exclusive gold basis and greenbacks are nearly at par with this gold in anticipation ot a rcsump tion i...

LATE NEWS ITEMS. - Bob McKenna, alias " Little lteddy," ehlof of the pang of highwaymen who robbed tho Black Hills stage-coaches last summer, was arrested on the 14th at Italnsboro, Ulch land County, O., where ho bad recently limrrli'd and nettled down hh a farmer. His last aud moHt famous exploit wan on Juno 20, when $14,000 was taken by a party of lire, ,11 of which they got away with. jIcKeinia left the Hills immediately after fcttinK the dilHt, and has lieou .tracked tliroiiKli Texas, Arizona, Missouri and Illi nois by Bullock, former Sheriff of Dead 1 wood, wlio Anally succeeded in effecting his capture. McKeuna'a wife Is said to be a jery handsome and Intelligent young lady, and ho is respectably connected. John Appel & Co., pork-packers, and James II. Snodgras & Co., wholesulo gro cers, of Cincinnati, O., have made assign ments. Amounts involved not given. There liavo been several additional failures among the New York druggists, brought about by the suspension of Dun...